Mediagazer: A Journalist With Rare Access to Obama Had to Play by Quote Rule (Jeremy Peters/The Caucus)

7:15 AM ET, September 12, 2012

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“The Math” — Earlier today at TechCrunch Disrupt, Ryan Lawler led a media panel. On it, sat Alison Moore, HBO's Senior Vice President of Digital Platforms. Naturally, the topic of selling HBO direct-to-consumers via HBO Go came up. “Here's the thing: it's math.

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Citing “The Math,” HBO's Alison Moore Says There Are Still No Plans For Standalone HBO GO In The U.S. — Those lucky folks in the Nordics just recently got access to an on-demand, over-the-top HBO service that bears more than a passing resemblance to HBO GO, but we here in the States haven't been quite as fortunate.

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Douglas Brinkley / Vanity Fair:

Joe Scarborough to Test the Waters for a 2016 Presidential Run — Five years ago this month, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski began co-hosting MSNBC's savvy, caffeinated Morning Joe, their daily brew of news, chat, and political opinion. And even though they are both married, with children …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Scarborough: ‘I have no plans to run in 2016’ — MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says he has no plans to run in 2016, despite a report in Vanity Fair that suggests otherwise. “I have no plans to run in 2016,” Scarborough told POLITICO today, following a report by Douglas Brinkley stating …

Discussion: @dylanbyers and Mediaite

Jeremy Peters / The Caucus:

A Journalist With Rare Access to Obama Had to Play by Quote Rule — Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short,” was granted extraordinary access to President Obama for his latest article in Vanity Fair. — But with that access came one major condition.

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Michael Lewis, Granted Unprecedented Access To Obama, Agrees To Quote Approval

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

The NYT doesn't need one public editor, it needs a hundred — The New York Times recently appointed a new “public editor” — the ombudsman-style position that is designed to be a liaison between readers and the management of the newspaper — and so far, former Buffalo News editor Margaret Sullivan …

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Cynthia Cotts / The New York Observer:
New York Times Union Reps Back in Talks with Management Over Contract

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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Meet Print's New Politicos — Time, Newsweek, The Nation: These are the kinds of magazines where political junkies expect to find election news. But at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, delegates rubbed elbows with reporters from magazines known less for their election coverage than for forecasting fashion trends.

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Glenn Beck's Show Heads to Dish Network — Glenn Beck is bringing his brand of conservative commentary back to the television set. — One year after embracing an Internet-only distribution model, Mr. Beck is repositioning his streaming network, TheBlaze TV, as an offering for cable …

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Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Tumblr Feeling the Heat: New York Web Giant Under Pressure To Build A Business — David Karp is starting to feel pressure from investors to turn his giant social blogging platform, Tumblr, into a business, sources say. — The venture capitalists, particularly Sequoia Capital …

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Another exit at the ‘Observer’: News editor Megan McCarthy — Three New York Observer staffers announced their departures from the salmon-tinted weekly last week. — This week, there's another: news editor Megan McCarthy is out. Her last day will be sometime this week.

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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

For Paton, Bankruptcy for Journal Register Is ‘Embarrassing’ but Necessary — The last few days have provided a lesson in humility, John Paton acknowledged. — Mr. Paton, the chief executive of the management company Digital First Media Group, had his subsidiary, the Journal Register Company …

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Wall Street Journal:

Publisher of the Deal Magazine for Sale — The publisher of The Deal, a magazine devoted to covering mergers, financings and other transactions, is for sale and being shopped to media and information companies, people familiar with the matter said. — Media-focused boutique bank DeSilva+Phillips LLC …

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

NBC's ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview — At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In New York, the NYPD, FDNY …

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Poynter:
9/11 anniversary forgotten on the front page of today's New York Times

Alan Cowell / New York Times:

More Than One Kind of Truth in Journalism — PARIS — If there were an unchallenged model for a particular kind of foreign correspondence in the late 20th century, one that evoked not only events but the passions that cast them into relief, it was the work of the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski …